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IDC Business Value Study: Dedupe & Data Protection

As storage infrastructures grow and evolve to keep up with developments across the IT landscape, many organizations are finding the need to consolidate the data throughout their backups, servers and storage architectures. Unfortunately, however, as servers are virtualized and consolidated, the problems linked to today's backup and storage environments are only intensified.

In efforts to curb the exacerbation of these issues, many companies are turning to storage efficiency techniques such as deduplication, which can provide relief from many of the long-standing backup challenges like duplicate data and slow recovery times. But can dedupe technologies promise accelerated backup and recovery efficiency and reduced IT costs for every business?

Check out this IDC business value study of 11 companies using Quantum deduplication solutions and see if an investment in dedupe might benefit your company today. Read on for highlights of IDC's ROI analysis, including benefits and challenges.